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(ESPAÑOL) Tougher immigration judges. More prosecution of low-level immigration-law violations. And a cut-off of some law enforcement funds to cities that don’t hew to a harsher immigration policy. Even without changing a single law, these are some of the...

(ESPAÑOL) The Florida Bar sent out a warning this week: Don’t get a nonlawyer, especially a notary (or notarios), to do an immigration lawyer’s job. The warning appears on the Florida Bar website in English and Spanish. Notary publics or notarios got...

(ESPAÑOL) The population of the American private prison system is likely to rise for the first time in nearly a decade with President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to detain and deport millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally and his...

(ESPAÑOL) The U.S. tech sector was broadly opposed to the candidacy of Donald Trump, motivated by concerns from data privacy to telecom regulation. But the biggest concern may have been the potential impact of Trump’s immigration stance on tech staffing....

(ESPAÑOL) Students at college campuses across the country led walkouts on Wednesday, protesting the immigration proposals of President-elect Donald Trump and calling on their universities to protect undocumented immigrants. Through petitions and protests...

(ESPAÑOL) Kamala Harris said Thursday that in her new role as California’s U.S. senator she will to do everything in her power to protect immigrants, both legal and those who entered the country illegally, and criticized Donald Trump’s demands for mass...

(ESPAÑOL) President-elect Donald Trump’s tough stance against illegal immigration and pledge to enforce immigration laws became one of his most powerful rallying cries during his campaign for the White House. Trump supporters cheered him on as he vowed to...

(ESPAÑOL) Donald Trump expressed support for “amnesty” for some undocumented immigrants during a 2011 interview on Fox News. In an appearance in November of 2011 on “Fox and Friends,” Trump defended former House Speaker Newt Gingrich,...

(ESPAÑOL) Former South Florida Venezuelan activist Maylin Silva was sentenced to two years and six months in federal prison for immigration fraud and an escape attempt. “I beg you to forgive me,” a sobbing Silva told the court Wednesday after U.S....